Stanley was educated at St Paul's School, and was a student in St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1910, obtaining the diplomas of M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) in 1915. He gained a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant, and entered the war in France on 3rd May 1916. He served with the 134th Field Ambulance, but was later transferred to No 38 Casualty Clearing Station, where he was serving when he died of cerebro-spinal meningitis. *Stanley's death was reported in The Yorkshire Herald on the 26th July 1916, which reads "The death had taken place at a Clearing Hospital at the front of Lieut Stanley W Burrell, RAMC, second son of the Rev. F W and Mrs Isaacs, and grandson of the late Mr E P Burrell of Kirk Deighton, Wetherby. Deceased; who adopted the name of Burrell, was 25 years of age, and recently passed his medical examinations. He went to the front three or four months ago, and died from fever. The Rev. F W Issacs is vicar of Chiswick, and the Rural Dean of Hammersmith. His eldest son, Lieut L R B Isaacs, who farms at Kingbarrow, Wetherby, is in the East Riding Yeomanry, and the youngest son, who was invalided from the front some time ago, is the second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment. A memorial service for the late Lieut Burrell is to be held at St Bartholomew's London, on Friday." [*Special thanks to David Stowe]